Magazine fire-arm



(No Model.)

J. M. MARLIN.

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W1 T E '5 5 ES- Magazine Fire Arm.

Patented Nov; 9,1880.

Q "PI-II OGRAPMER, WASHINGTON D C 'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. MARLIN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

MAGAZINE FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,309, dated November 9, 1880.

Application filed August 18, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN M. IVIARLIN, of New Haven, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented Improvements in the Manufacture of Magazine-Guns, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to magazineguns, and has for its object certain improvements, hereinafter described, in attaching the outer end of the magazine-tube to the barrel, near its end, so that the magazine-tube may be readily connected with or detached from the barrel. For this purpose the end of the magazinetube is provided with a stud, one end of which has a flat head or cross-piece with beveled edges to enter a slot in the under side of the barrel. The other end of this stud enters anopening in the magazine-tube. The head of this stud may be of any irregular or proper shape in cross-section to suitably enter a correspondingly-shaped recess or slot at the under side of the barrel, to hold the head from being drawn out at right angles to the length of the groove in the barrel.

Figure 1 represents, in side elevation, a sufficient portion of a gun to represent my im provements, the barrel being broken out, the stock being broken off, and the magazine-tube being partly in section; and Figs. 2 and 3, details representing the magazine-tube and its connected stud.

The stock, lock, barrel, and magazine-tube may be of any usual or suitable construction, and the tube may contain any usual spring to keep the usual cartridges at the proper end of the tube.

The barrel j, near its front end, at its lower side, as herein shown, is provided with a dovetailed transverse slot or recess, to receive the base of the correspondingly-shaped stud It.

To connect the magazine-tube with the bar-' rel the stud 7c is driven home to its place in the groove in the barrel. The magazine-tube is then inserted in its place at the end of the receiver or frame of the gun, at d, and the outer end of the magazine-tube is then slipped upon the small or outer end of the stud 7a. This connection between the barrel and tube prevents any forward or longitudinal movement of the magazine-tube due to recoil of the gun after firing a cartridge.

The screw Z is passed through the magazinetnbe into the stud 7c, and is screwed down so as to bring its point into a recess in the barrel. This screw serves the double purpose of holding the magazine-tube upon the stud,and the point of the screw entering the barrel prevents any chance of the stud being moved out of place in the groove of the barrel from any accidental blow against the tube.

I claim- The barrel j, provided at its lower side with a recess or slot, and the magazine-tube, combined with a stud to enter the said recess in the barrel, and also the recess or opening in the magazine-tube, and with a screw or fastening device to hold the tube upon the stud,

the point of the screw entering the barrel, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN M. MARLIN.

Witnesses:

J OSEPH J. SWEENEY, M. H. MARLIN. 

